Andrey Shatilov has been eliminated in the space of two hands; btoh against [Removed:2].
The first saw Shatilov open to 20,000 UTG+1 and after Robert Mizrachi folded [Removed:2] three-bet to 45,000. The action passed back to Shatilov and he four-bet to 83,000 and 90-seconds later Maksoud five-bet to 125,000. This was enough to get the job done because Shatilov folded and was shown for his troubled.
The very next hand Shatilov opened to 20,000 once again and Maksoud three-bet to 45,000. Shatilov made it 87,000 to play and Maksoud four-bet to 87,000. With the action back on Shatilov he made it 139,000 (we're not making this up, honest), Maksoud shoved and Shatilov snap-called.
Shatilov:
Maksoud:
By the river the board read and although the ace alone would have been enough to win the hand for Maksoud, it also completed a spade flush and with that Shatilov was eliminated.
Gilboa Yossi opened to 21,000 from the button and [Removed:2] made it 48,000 in the big blind, Yossi called to see a very wet flop.
Maksoud bet 55,000 and Yossi made the call to see the on the turn, ostensibly a blank. Maksoud continued with a 100,000 bet and Yossi moved all in, getting instantly called.
Maksoud:
Yossi:
Maksoud had flopped a set but Yossi had flopped the 2nd nut flush with a royal flush redraw. The came on the river and Yossi doubled up to over a million
Marvin Rettenmaier has just sent Robert Mizrachi to the rail and that means Mizrachi will not be following in Matt Waxman's footsteps and becoming an American winner of a European-based World Poker Tour event.
The chips went into the middle with Mizrachi holding to Rettenmaier's and when the five community cards were fanned onto the felt they read and Rettenmaier had made a flush.
Mizrachi is gone and we are down to 14 in the Main Event.
Aram Vartevaniyn opened to 25,000 preflop before [Removed:2] made it 55,000 in the seat next to him, Vartevaniyn quickly pushed, Maksoud instantly called - it was all very simple.
Vartevaniyn:
Maksoud:
Another ace-king versus aces battle and after the board came we were down to 13 players.
Erik Cajelais opened to 25,000 from the hijack seat and two to his left was Ran Azor, who made the call. To Azor's left is the relatively short-stacked Joseph El Khoury who moved all-in for 241,000 in total, sending Victor Parashiv into the tank.
Parashiv checked his cards, re-checked them then smiled to himself. He squirmed in his seat, exhaled loudly, counted his chips and then placed a yellow 1,000 chip on the top of his card. Everything looked like he was shaping to move all-in himself but he ultimately folded. Both other active players folded too.
"You have tens?" asked Erik Cajelais.
"Ace-king," came the reply.
The entire table's jaws dropped and they entered a brief, rather one-sided discussion about how ace-king there is a snap-call.
"I just did not want to flip for 70% of my stack," Paraschiv said as he tried to justify his tight fold.
Erik Cajelais opened to 25,000 from under the gun, Ran Azor made the call but Victor Parashiv spoiled the party and three-bet to 66,000 from the button. Only Cajelais called and it was heads-up to the flop.
Cajelais initially checked, allowing Parashiv to fire a 66,000 continuation bet, a bet that Cajelais check-raised to 140,000. Parashiv wasted no time in moving all-in and Cajelais cards hit the muck in record quick time.
Hüsnü Sincar moved all in from UTG for just over 200,000 and it was folded around to Walid Bou Habib in the small blind who flat-called but Erik Cajelais folded in the big blind.
Sincar:
Habib:
The board came and Sincar, who had been chip leader at various parts of Days 1 and 2, goes out in 13th position
for his troubled.
and although the ace alone would have been enough to win the hand for Maksoud, it also completed a spade flush and with that Shatilov was eliminated.![[Removed:2]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
on the turn, ostensibly a blank. Maksoud continued with a 100,000 bet and Yossi moved all in, getting instantly called.
came on the river and Yossi doubled up to over a million
to Rettenmaier's 
and Rettenmaier had made a flush.
we were down to 13 players.
flop.
and Sincar, who had been chip leader at various parts of Days 1 and 2, goes out in 13th position